What I don't like About this Class

There isn't a lot of things I don't like about this class. Compare to the other class that I had, this class is not as bad as the others. What I'm comparing includes homework, classwork, and other in-class events. For this class, it is fun how you make jokes to let us have a fun class. Even though we have quizzes every Thursday, but it is not that hard. Basically this class didn't gave me a lot of pressure comparing to the other classes. Take life science for example, we have tons of homework every class and we have difficult chapter tests too. Compare to this class, the story tests are a lot more easier then the science tests. As long as you read the story and know the definition of the vocabulary words, you'll do fine on the test. The amount of homework for this class is not that much either, most of the homework assessments are the reading quizzes. As long as you read the novel we're reading it is quite easy to do, but there are disadvantages about doing the reading quizzes on wikispaces. It is that sometimes it doesn't work, maybe your internet or your computer broke. Now you have to write it out yourself. So sometimes if we use paper all the time, there wouldn't be this problem.

Do The Right Thing

A definition of a hero is a person who is willing to help or sacrifice for other people when they have problems or troubles. Harriet Tubman is classified as a hero because she is willing to risk her life and help other in slaved people to escape from their slavery. If she get caught doing this, she will definitely get killed. Her goal is to bring the in slaved people north to Canada. She used her underground railroad system to travel to Canada, which is a promise land to all the in slaved people. During the travel, there are people who are willing to help these people who are escaping. They gave them food to eat and a warm place to stay for the night. After a month, they finally arrived at their promise land, Canada.
Barbara Fritechie is also classified as a hero, when the Confederate troops are marching into their town, she bravely raised the American flag at the troop. All the soldiers are ready to shoot at the Barbara, but the general stopped the soldiers that are ready to shoot. He is doing the right thing, so the general can be also classified as a hero. 

Standing Up for Your Belifs

In the 1900s Americans believed that African Americans are a lowered level people. The Americans made rules that are unfair to the African Americans such as, they can't sit in the front of the bus, or they can't go to certain public places. These rules are obviously unfair, but the African Americans can't change this. There was a African American called Malcolm X, he was a hero to the African Americans. He is a public speaker about human rights, he believed that all people are equal. He made speeches about how he thinks that African Americans and Americans should be equal, and how they unfair rules should be removed. He's beliefs changed the life of the African Americans, he is a hero to the African American people.

I have a belief that if you try hard, you can be successful. Maybe you are not good at a subject of event at first, but if you practice from time to time, you can be good at that thing. Keep trying, don't just quit all of a sudden, be patient it's quite hard to be good at one thing in a short time. You have to believe in yourself in order to be successful. 

Cinderella Story

I use to know a student who came to our school a couple years ago, he came from a local school, so this means his english is not as good as students that had studied in this school. He is basically the start of Cinderella, but after more and more practice he started to improve his english level. After a couple years, he is now really great at english. He can read, write, speak, and listens to english very well. Now he is the Cinderella at the end of the story, a happy ending.
When I started playing tennis, I use to play with a group of friends every weekend, but all of my friends had played tennis for more then 3 years. When I started to play with them, I'm am the person who misses every time. I started practicing more and more, after a couple of months I started to be able to rally with my friends. Now I can play fully with my friends. Even though you might be bad at a thing at first, it doesn't mean that your going to be bad at doing it for the rest of your life. Practice takes time, but it's worth it.

Hero Biography

Everyone have their own hero, and how they think a hero is. To me, my mom is my hero. The reason that I choose my mom as my hero is because, she is the person who raised me, helped me when I have problems, and take good care of me. My definition of a hero is a person who helps people when they have troubles or problems, so basically my mom fits my definition of a hero. To me, she is the most helpful person that I know. Even though some people thinks that heros are suppose to have special powers, like super man or bat man, but to me my heros doesn't need special powers. They just need to be helpful and willing to sacrifice for someone in able to solve their problem. The second reason I choose my mom as my hero is because that my dad is usually out of town. He only comes back about once in a couple months. Even though I don't live with him so often, but he is still helping me, just not physically. He makes money for us which supports our family. The money goes to what we need for food, transportation, and for education. So I should say my dad is one of my heros too. Everyone have different point of views of heros.

Leaving Everything Behind

There was a horrible disaster that happened this year, it was the 88 flood. It was a horrible flood that happened in the southern part of Taiwan. At first, it was just a bad flood, but after weeks the flood became a horrifying landslide. People, cars, houses got buried under all the mud and soil that had slide down to the town. Mud rushed into houses, and destroying everything in it's path. The mud slide covered the whole town, it reached the second floor of most houses. The villagers are lost all their belongings and even their own home. They are forced to move out of the town to live somewhere else where the government have gave them. Power shovels and bulldozers are clearing out the mud that has ruined the town, some villagers were standing next to the power shovels and bulldozers to see if they dug something that belongs to them. This made me think of another disaster that had happened in Taiwan about a year ago, it was a typhoon that strike the southern part of Taiwan. The typhoon was so powerful that it destroyed the whole town, just like the town that had been destroyed by the flood. The place where the town use to be, it's a flat plain now. Everything is gone, houses, car, and a lot of villagers died from the typhoon. Most of them got burred  under rocks and mud. These were the two main disasters that had happened in Taiwan.

The Promise Land

The reason why Hariette Tubman is like Moses is because both of them help people to get to their promise lands. According to the bible, Moses brought thousands of Egyptians to the place where everyone is free and relaxed, which is their promiseland. The Egyptians are use to be treated harshly, they are inslalved and forced to build buidings and work in the farmlands. After Moses brought them to their promise land, everyone is free and relaxed. No more being forced to work, everyone worked for themselves. People lived a peaceful life. Hariette Tubman risked her life to rescue the inslved people from their slavery. Hariette Tubman had a underground railroad system that brings inslaved people to freedom. Which to the inslaved people, is their promise land. People like Moses and Hariette Tubman are helpful people that everyone wants. Even though they don't get paid to do all this helpful things, but they still do it. Both of them saved the inosent people from the injustices. Now people call these kind of people heros.

Why Risk Your Life?

A person like Haritte Tubman, who is aready free, is willing to help other inslaved people escape from their pain. She is just not a person who we can describe as "nice". When black people are still inslaved, they are forced to work, clean, and do whatever their masters told them to. Sometimes they are forced to work at a farm, clean the house, do all kinds of houseworks, and sometimes even cook for the family their serving. If  the slaves don't do what their master want them to do, they will get whiped. This is really unfair, now people thinks that everyone's equal, but back in the times, people thinks that black people are a level lower then them. Hariette Tubman makes me think of volunteers who is willing to help the city in anything and without getting paid. Volunteers sometimes help the city clean the roads, help the elderlys. These people are just like Hariette Tubman, they are willing to help even though they won't get paid. If Hariette get cought when she is helping slaves escape, she will get killed easily. The slaves who were help by Hariette Tubman should be extreamly thankful to Hariette beacuse she risked her life to save people who she doesn't know.

For the Sake of Freedom

People always want freedom, freedom is basically how you wanted to live. People have fight about freedom since the 1800s, such as slavery. American's use to make African Americans to be their slave, they force them to do work such as, working in the farm, clean the house, and other chores. Of course, if they don't obey their master, they will get whipped. Sooner or later, the slaves all figured out a plan to escape from their masters. There was this African American named Harriet Tubman, she is the planned for the escape. They designed a underground railroad system to let the slaves escape from their master. Harriet Tubman help hundreds of slaves to escape. The American's kept the African American's as slaves, this means that the slaves lost their freedom. After the slaves had enough, they planned to escape.

What Happened?!

After Billy tasted a bittery almond taste in his tea, it was too late. He started feeling sick and sleepy. After a few seconds, he fainted suddenly and lying on the floor. The landlady smiled evily with a scary looking grin. She picked Billy up, and started to carry him towards the 4th floor. When she reached the 4th floor, there is a really strong smell that smells like rotten living things. When the landlady turned on the lights, there were two men hanging from the celling (which is the two guests that use to live in the boarding house). They looked pale and ice cold. Both of them are obviously stuffed, just like the landlady's dog. As soon as the landlady reached a hospital bed, she put Billy on the bed who is still unconchous. She took out a knife out from her pocket, and stab it directly towards Billy's heart. After that, she took off all his clothes, and cut a stright line from his chest down to his belly button. Then she started pulling all the organs and the other things in his body. After a short 30 minutes, billy is dressed and stuffed just like the two other guests. Billy now is offically a new collectoins of the landady.